2019

Inspired By KIng Crimson
Music BY The Bass Loopman
Songwriters: William Scott Bruford / Robert Fripp / Richard William Palmer James / David Francis Cross / John Kenneth Wetton

Great Deceiver (KIng Crimson)

This is the second album by the Inventionis Mater - Zappa duo: "Kong's Revenge!"
Music by Frank Zappa, Andrea Pennati & Pierpaolo Romani.

Andrea Pennati, classical guitar
Pierpaolo Romani, clarinet & bass clarinet

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02 Florentine Pogen

This recording is a rough version (you can hear our cat purring in the background), but the feeling and emotion is there by the truck load. Sung orginially by Sandy Denny with Fairport Convention.

Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Fairport Convention)

The Double Toasted podcast review an in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.

EAT THAT QUESTION (Frank Zappa In His Own Words) - Double Toasted Audio Review

How I meat my uncle was written for the Inventionis Mater duo, to be included in their new album "Zapping" - launched in Hamburg on the 13th of July 2016. This piece, in three movements, takes inspiration from Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat, which material has been reworked differently in each one: in the opening (In the Virgin's garden) we can hear the sounds of an imaginative exotic garden, where virgins are having a bath while birds sing. Very gently comes out a quote to Leia’s theme, from John Williams’ Star Wars, followed, in the very end, by another little quote: Catholic girls, by Zappa. The second movement (Zappateado)is a Zapateado - a type of dance from Mexico which has also become very popular in Spain, in Zappa style. Here tunes and chords from Uncle Meat are mixed up with other quotes (try and guess them!). The opening fragment from Uncle Meat is also used in the third movement - scored with different chords in order to make it sounding very closed to Gustav Mahler’s music. It is in fact called “Lo zio Mahler” (Mahler’s uncle) paying homage to the Austrian composer (you can hear for a moment: Frére Jacques, used in Mahler’s First Symphony).
This work is dedicated to my friends Pierpaolo Romani ed Andrea Pennati.



III. Lo zio Mahler (How I meat my uncle)

II. Zappateado (How I meat my uncle)

I. In the virgin's garden (How I meat my uncle)

libretto by Giacomo Giuntini
for actor, soprano, bariton and ensemble

Final Concert of the "Opera Project – Composition course for musical theater" at Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana by Giorgio Battistelli and Antoine Gindt

Actor Riccardo Massai
Soprano Alda Caiello
Bariton Marco Bussi
Mimic Silvia Giulia Mendola
Conductor M° Marco Lena

Recorded July 31, 2012 at Siena, Teatro dei Rozzi

Synopsis

Two clients of a bank (the singers) are complaining about not advantageous bank's financial products.
A thief (mimic) enter into the bank.
The clerck (actor) push the botton of alarm: in 5 minutes the police will arrive.
In order to disturb the thief, the clerk begins to speak about uselessness of money and the importance of other types of bank, like "blood bank", "sperm bank", "ethical bank".
He is so convincing that clients became angry and angry because, even if the clerk is disturbing the thief, he can't say money are without value.
Finally the male client steals the gun and shoots at the clerk.
The final duet is an ironic exaltation of the importance of banks and money.

5'00" (2012)

Metamorphosis Quartet performs Modest Mussorgsky's "Limoges, le marché" in a very prog version by Pierpaolo Romani

Quartetto Metamorphosis

Jacopo Rugiadi, clarinet
Giulia Fidenti, alto sax
Giada Moretti, tenor sax
Pierpaolo Romani, bass clarinet

Pictures at an Exhibition - Mercato di Limoges - A prog-version

19 years ago Frank passed away....this is my tribute for one of the most gifted composers of all time!

Blessed Relief- Frank Zappa- Davide Pepi acoustic guitar

Live in Maidstone 1970 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Sir Patrick Spens (Live In Maidstone, 1970)

Inventionis Mater is a clarinet-guitar duo, specialized in Frank Zappa's music.
The duo is env...stop it now! Talking about music is like dancing about architecture!

02 Florentine Pogen

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